Debate my pronunciation between a tin container ('pee-can') and a Southern drawl ('puh-kahn'), but once baked with brown sugar into a Thanksgiving pie, everyone agrees I am delicious. What am I?
A pecan
Wordplay on the famous regional debate over how to pronounce the autumn nut 'pecan'.
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